Cattle Market Update
From Steve Kay, editor and publisher of Cattle Buyers Weekly. Catch a roundup of each week’s cattle-market activity every Friday afternoon! View the market review now!
BEEF POLL
USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration published a proposed rule June 22 that could prohibit packers from paying more for some cattle than others, and could derail current value-added marketing agreements between feedlots and packers.
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2007 BEEF Quality Summit Presentations
Beef Quality
Ag Day Contest
Seventh- to 12th-grade students are invited to submit an original, 450-word essay about the importance of ag. This year's theme is American Agriculture:...
Organic beef operation merits suspension
One of the largest organic cattle producers in the U.S., Bassett, NE-based Promiseland Livestock, LLC, has been suspended from organic commerce, along...
Choices over price more than just price determines cow-calf profitability
Pounds may drive revenue in the cattle business, but how those pounds appear in the marketplace, and when, determine the direction and degree. Although...
Not So Fast
The U.S. is the leading producer of milk, beef, chicken and poultry, and second in pork, eggs and game meat worldwide. This has primarily been achieved...
English Beef Industry Fighting Back Against Detractors
England's red meat industry has relaunched www.meatandhealth.com, a website designed to remind consumers and health professionals that red meat is a great...
What Feeders Want When They Go To Buy Feeder Cattle
A long standing joke by cattle feeders when asked what kind of cattle they like to feed is to respond, the kind that can walk up to the feedbunk. In the...
Fight Back Now Against Anti-Meat Groups to Protect the Beef Industry’s Future
Who could have imagined 20 years ago how the beef industry would be so under attack? The past two decades have seen the industry transform itself into...
The Naturals | Doc & Connie Hatfield are 2009 BEEF Trailblazers because they listen to the consumer
Connie Hatfield tells the story of how a fitness trainer turned her and husband Doc's lives around. But it isn't a tale about working toward a beach-worthy...
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From Our Columnists
High cost producers at a decided disadvantage
"Dumb luck can overwhelm knowledge and rational strategy in the short term. For the long haul, though, there is no substitute for...
Is a turnaround in the economy ahead?
Since the current biofuels era has negated the long-run effect of the traditional cattle cycle, ranch-management decisions have become more difficult...
Busting pinkeye in cattle
Growing up in Missouri, I saw firsthand the wonderful benefits that heat, humidity and high rainfall provide a fly population. Aside from the devastating production losses...
